lexie
\lɛk.si\
The verdict
“lexie” is uncommon French (frequency #58,067 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,067
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément unitaire du lexique, comme un mot simple (lexème), une locution ou un proverbe. Par exemple, jeune, jeune homme et les voyages forment la jeunesse sont des lexies.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lexie · lexie · French
lexie · rank #58,067 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,067
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH Lied
Nearest frequency peer: Lied (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « lexie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- latimer
latimer
41,940 corpus weight
- Lavinia
Lavinia
41,936 corpus weight
- lexie
lexie
41,934 corpus weight
- Lied
Lied
41,933 corpus weight
- lévriers
lévriers
41,929 corpus weight
- madrigal
madrigal
41,928 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lexie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lexie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \lɛk.si\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lexie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lexie is uncommon French at frequency #58,067 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \lɛk.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Élément unitaire du lexique, comme un mot simple (lexème), une locution ou un proverbe. Par exemple, jeune, jeune homme et les voyages forment la jeunesse sont des lexies.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for lexie in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is lexie, spelled L-E-X-I-E.
Definition
- 1Élément unitaire du lexique, comme un mot simple (lexème), une locution ou un proverbe. Par exemple, jeune, jeune homme et les voyages forment la jeunesse sont des lexies.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lexie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En second lieu, dans les usages qui nous intéressent, le syntagme « petite phrase » apparaît comme une lexie, c’est-à-dire comme une unité formant un tout spécifique, non réductible à l’addition de ses composantes (et non pas comme une expression libre, que l’on pourrait modifier sans grands changements de sens, par exemple en disant « phrase succincte »)…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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